Haskell Weekly News: December 19, 2009

Welcome to issue 144 of HWN, a newsletter covering
developments in the Haskell community.

The big news this week is the release of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell
compiler version 6.12.1, lots of exciting new improvements, congratulations
from the whole community go out to the devs, good work GHC Team! Otherwise,
this week has been quiet, with some interesting discussions about associated
types and the new GHC, and some excellent new packages announced. Finally,
due to the incoming holidays, there won't be an HWN for the next two weeks,
I'll see you Haskellers in 2010, until then, your Haskell Weekly News!

Announcements

GHC version 6.12.1. Ian Lynagh
announced
the (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler, version 6.12.1. Including
improved support for parallel execution, Dynamic linking support on Linux,
and many other improvments.

Quotes of the Week

yrlnry: <byorgey> yrlnry:
just some lady who had a lot of money and decided she wanted poor grad
students to have some of it after she died... pretty nice of her, actually
<yrlnry> senile dementia, more likely.

Philonous: A 'newbie', in Haskell, is someone who hasn't
yet implemented a compiler. They've only written a monad tutorial.

kmc: Right, for example Either (pun not intended)

kmc: One thing I've learned from open-source software
is that if you invent enough wheels, one of them will turn out to be
round and capable of rolling.

PhilipWadler: To see
that "in" and "out" are inverses, stare at the following diagram

kmc: Data.Map is like a C++ STL map<k,v>, without the
suck

edwardkmett: Most monad tutorials are written
by people who barely understand monads, if at all, but unfortunately
nothing can stop someone from writing a monad tutorial. We've tried,
there was blood everywhere.